The term x86-64-v3 is once again the talk of Linux town, but what does it mean, and should you be concerned about it? Learn more here.

In case you haven't had time to keep up with the latest news, the reason some might think x86 is on its way out is because of Qualcomm and its AI-enabled Snapdragon X chips.This year's ARM-based ...

With its more complex instructions, too, x86 can have a more complex pipeline. For example, x86 uses a variable-length instruction set from 1 to 15 bytes, whereas Arm itself is of a fixed length ...

As I’m sure many of you know, x86 architecture has been around for quite some time. It has its roots in Intel’s early 8086 processor, the first in the family. Indeed, even the original … ...

The Java programming language has a slogan: Write once, run anywhere. By now you’ve probably heard it so many times that it’s lost all meaning, no matter what your language of choice. But when ...

The x86 instruction set, first introduced with Intel's 8086 and still alive and well in the Pentium IV, has long been decried as mostly dead. Ironically, most of today's x86-compatibles still ...

The Android operating system is built to run on three different types of processor architecture: Arm, Intel x86, and MIPS. The former is today’s ubiquitous architecture after Intel abandoned its ...

The best reason to learn x86 assembly is so you can learn to hate the architecture. Then you can move on to something else (anything else really), but ARM is a good example of something nicer.

IBM’s reported interest in selling parts of its x86 server business to Lenovo may bring major changes to the global market. IBM is the third-largest seller of x86 servers by factory revenue ...

I wrote about server appliances last week, and observed in passing that Rebel.com and Cobalt, both purveyors of Linux-based boxes, had switched from embedded RISC processors to x86-compatible ...